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"So..." Xia Yi looked at where her golden retriever teammates disappeared, "What should we do next?"

"Should I jump down and find it?"

"Or will it resurrect itself here?"

She looked back to where she had just landed.

If there's one place that works best as a save point, it's right at the beginning of the game.

But the golden retriever did not appear there. Instead, it was suspended by three big balloons, flew up little by little, and was thrown back to the big mushroom.

"Snapped!"

One of the three balloons burst, and the remaining two quickly floated up and disappeared.

"Wow." Jin Mao glanced at Xia Yi and turned away guiltily.

"..." Xia Yi didn't look at it, silently retreating, running, and jumping!

She landed firmly on the opposite side, then turned around and looked at the stupid golden retriever with disdain.

The golden retriever was timid for a while, but he mustered up the courage to try a second time, and finally managed to jump over.

And as soon as he stood firm, he stuck out his tongue excitedly and breathed at Xia Yi while laughing. The hot breath made the hair on Xia Yi's face twitch.

She subconsciously rubbed her itchy face with her little paws, and then patted the golden retriever's face with a paw, telling it to get away.

But the golden retriever didn't care at all, and still came over enthusiastically, almost knocking her over to the ground.

Xia Yi waved her two cat paws and slapped its dog's face, trying to drive away this golden retriever who might not have enough IQ but was too enthusiastic.

Then he successfully jumped to the next much smaller mushroom.

After arriving here, the dim light from the sky became weak, but the fluorescence emitted by the plants became obvious. Following the fluorescent traces on the rock wall, one could see a road extending into the distance.

But the problem is: the nearest foothold is more than two meters away.

You can't jump over it on your own.

Just as Xia Yi was about to say something, the golden retriever behind her suddenly barked: "Woof?"

Turning around to look over, I found that the golden retriever had already begun to eat the mushrooms.

The place where this mushroom platform connects to the rock wall is covered with a layer of some unknown plant.

Several round red fruits were heavily dotted at the bottom of the leaves. In Xia Yi's eyes, there was even a glimmer of light on the surface of the fruits - obviously, the system was reminding her that these fruits were clues to overcoming difficulties.

But the problem is: that stupid dog didn't even bother to pay attention to the fruit, and lowered his head to gnaw the mushroom under the fruit!

There are still mushrooms with white polka dots evenly distributed on the bright red umbrella cover!

"?!"

"Shut up!!"

Xia Yi was shocked and immediately rushed over, grabbing the mushroom and pulling it out.

With a "pop" sound, the little orange cat grabbed the remaining half of the mushroom and rolled around.

Xia Yi quickly got up, threw away the remaining mushrooms in her hands, turned to look at the golden retriever, only to find that the silly dog ​​had collapsed on the ground and was foaming at the mouth.

"Spit it out!"

"Spit it out quickly!!"

Xia Yi went to pry the dog's mouth.

But the golden retriever whimpered and fell away in front of her.

"???"

"Are you here to be funny?!!"

Xia Yi's head hurt.

How could there be such a mentally retarded dog! ?

It's not like she's never seen a golden retriever before. How could there be such a stupid golden retriever? !

…

This is not her only problem.

There are many players now who have been deceived by [intelligent teammates].

But this cannot be blamed on the development team.

Because the step of [customizing teammates] they skipped also included the "IQ" step.

Instead of directly setting the IQ value of teammates, you can set [realistic IQ], [higher than real IQ] and [lower than real IQ].

If the player skips, one of the three options will be chosen at random.

How much higher or lower than reality is is also random.

Because of Yunmeng's huge user base, there are many players who have been cheated by mentally retarded teammates, and there are cats and dogs.

Of course, correspondingly, many players have also experienced the joy of teaming up with high-IQ cats and high-IQ dogs.

It's just that players who have been cheated have a stronger desire to talk - just like Xia Yi, she has the desire to scold her.

Therefore, in the first hour after the opening of "Homecoming Demo", the hottest topic on social networks, besides "cat slaves and shit shovelers playing games", was "artificial retardation saves hypotension".

# Cat slaves and shit shovelers play games # This topic has become very popular. A large part of the reason lies in the rich and ridiculously detailed [custom character image] function.

Not just Xia Yi, most players felt that this thing could be used as a "Cat Breed Encyclopedia" when they saw the 60 cat animations and the introduction of each cat.

Corresponding to the 60 types of cats available, there are 160 more crazy types [the world's mainstream dog breeds]!

——This number is far beyond the imagination limit of ordinary players.

In the concept of ordinary players, [Golden Retriever], [Husky], [Pomeranian], [Alaskan Malamute], [Labrador Retriever], [Poodle], [Shiba Inu], [Border Collie], [ Teddy], [Pug], [Samoyed], [Chow Chow], [Pekinese], [Corgi], [Akita], [Tibetan Mastiff], [Chihuahua], [Shar Pei], [ Beagle], [Yorkshire] these 20 species can basically summarize all the dogs I have ever seen and had an impression of.

Players from different countries and regions may use several local dog breeds to replace several of the above lists, but the total number is pretty much the same.

The development team of "Homeward Bound" has greatly expanded players' understanding of the richness of dog categories.

Even the number "160" is in the category of "more common", and more "uncommon" and "new varieties" have not been listed yet.

The various customization options and random cross-breeding functions are also as good as the cats.

To achieve this level, if you say that there are no cat slaves and shit scrapers in the development team, no one will believe it!

The mere step of creating an image has left a large number of players at a loss as they want to create the cutest cats and dogs in the world.

And after pinching a satisfied cat, their first reaction was not to enter the game, but -

screenshot!

Post photos!

Show off like crazy!

…

Ye Xiaohe was very satisfied with this.

The reaction of the players was completely within her expectation!

But soon, something unexpected happened to her——

As a group of players, there will never be a shortage of mavericks.

Some people post cute photos, and some people post ugly photos.

Good-looking cats and dogs are all similarly cute, but ugly cats and dogs are ugly in their own ways.

In comparison, all kinds of ugly photos are actually more popular!

Especially a sky-defying cat created by crossbreeding and subsequent adjustments——

The head is bald, the eyes are long and slanted, the nose is like a black beard, and the face is frowning. The hair color on the body is a dirty yellow, not to mention that it has not grown all the way, and only covers the first half of the body...

It looks as awkward as it gets.

But equally, the appearance of this cat fully proves the infinite possibilities of the "breed hybrid system"!

Super Tomato saw an opportunity.

He has always liked to organize various player activities, and of course he will not miss them now.

But beauty pageants are boring and too homogeneous - there are already many "cat beauty pageants" in reality, so if you want to be innovative, you still have to do something outrageous.

——So, why not hold an ugly contest!

Super Tomato is very action-oriented and immediately started live broadcasting to write plans, formulate rules, and think about prizes.

But the house manager in the live broadcast room had a question mark on his face:

"are you serious???"

"You are so provocative to the development team, are you really afraid that they will cause trouble for you?"